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Sypna umbrosa. (Plate CXI. fig. .3.) 

 Sypna umbrosa, Butler, Trans. F.nt. Sue. p. L'04. n. S ( IS>"1 ). 



Coloration of S. omicron'iyera : primaries dark smoky brown, faintly shot to beyond the 

 cell with violet, and crossed by three nearly equidistant, irregularly undulated and sinuated 

 black lines, the second passing through the rcniform spot, which is very indistinct and 

 greenish grey; a submarginal scries of small blackish-dotted whity-brown spots; apical third 

 of costal margin spotted with pale butt'; fringe spotted, and with a basal Hue of pale butt': 

 secondaries pale brown, shining whitish towards the costa : thorax and dorsal abdominal 

 tufts dark brown ; abdomen and under surface pale brown. Wings below with broad dusky 

 external borders : primaries with dusky costal border ; secondaries with a small blackish 

 curved anal dash. Expanse of wings 46 millim. 



Shillong, Assam. 



Sypna coelisparsa. (Plate CXI. fig. 1.) 

 Sypna ecclisparsa, Walker, Cat. Lep. llet. xiv. p. 1262. n. 4 (1857). 



Primaries above cupreous brown with purple veins ; the whole sui'face sprinkled with 

 sky-blue scales ; markings very similar to those of S. mormoides, dark piceous brown and 

 black; reniform spot narrow, pale, edged with a series of small blue dots : secondaries with 

 the costal area broadly golden brownish, the abdominal two thirds similarly coloured to the 

 primaries : body dark brown, the fringes of the tegulse and base of abdomen a little paler ; 

 abdomen purplish. Under surface whity brown, with faint lilacine reflection : wings crossed 

 by a narrow ill-defined smoky- brown band, a slightly wider well-defined arched band, and a 

 broad discal belt, which on the secondaries is only separated by four or five spots from the 

 outer margin : primaries with well-marked" external border, on which is a submarginal series 

 of small black crescents. Expanse of wings 53 millim. 



Assam (Warwick). 



Sypna pulchra. (Plate CXI. fig. 5.) 



Sypna pulchra, Butler, Trans. But. Soc. p. 208. n. 19 (1881). 



Primaries alternately banded with ochreous and blackish, the whole traversed by 

 numerous, undulated, parallel, black lines ; all the blackish bands and black lines brilliantly 

 shot with green towards the base, and with purple beyond; external border pale golden buff 

 towards apex; external angle dark brown just below the centre; a submarginal series of 

 wbite-pnpilled black clots; fringe varied with blackish: secondaries with basal half lilacine 

 grey ; costa cupreous whitish ; external area blackish, shot with purple, edged internally and 

 streaked at anal angle and on apical fringe with golden ochreous ; submarginal dots as in 



